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This message welcomes you and explains the large quantity of older episodes that I've re-posted at the top of this podcast. Vygotsky was a fascinating individual, and if you poke around a bit, I thin...
27 Apr 20221min
(S1,Ep18) A chat about CHAT (and CHT) (re-post)
(Initially posted December 2, 2020) Nikolai Veresov helps to distinguish cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) and cultural-historical theory (CHT). Highlights include: 0:35 - What is CHAT? (An...
27 Apr 20221h 31min
(S4,Ep64) What Are Concepts -- and How Might They Be Taught? (re-post)
(Initially posted November 1, 2020) Important questions. Interesting answers. Excerpts from Andy Blunden, Huw Lloyd, Peter Smagorinsky, David Kellogg, and Nikolai Veresov provide a great start to a r...
27 Apr 20225min
(S4,Ep88) Bridging 'Everyday' to 'Academic' Concepts (re-post)
(Originally posted Dec 22, 2021) Holbrook Mahn illustrates some question prompts and the thinking behind them. These ideas come from his "Academic Literacy for All (ALA) Protocol." The full chat is he...
27 Apr 20222min
(S4,Ep78) Piaget & Vygotsky: the foundational difference between them (re-post)
(Initially posted April 21, 2021) Nikolai Veresov discusses the under-reported "most important difference" between Piaget and Vygotsky, who had much in common, including a general approach to solving...
27 Apr 20222min
(S6,Ep1) Lenin's Tomb (feat. Mike Cole) (re-post)
(Originally posted Aug 12, 2020) This brief clip raises a number of questions, including: where are 'the buds'? - what are the qualitative reorganizations here? why are the buds (e.g., of volition) n...
27 Apr 20222min
(S5,Ep14) Building a system of concepts (re-post)
(Originally posted Sept 25, 2021) Nikolai Veresov, with contributions from David Kellogg, demonstrates how Vygotsky's cultural-historical theory is built as a system of concepts. To best understand (...
27 Apr 202229min
(S4,Ep85) Vygotsky's theory as a system of concepts (progress update) (re-post)
(Initially posted May 27, 2021) While there are many pathways into Vygotsky's work, this approach, so far, has been the most sensible for a slow learner like me -- even if it's misguided and even if I...
27 Apr 20222min
